Eagles coach Andy Reid said as far back as the owners' meetings last month that Abiamiri had knee surgery, but he's been rather evasive about what kind of knee surgery he actually had. It wasn't to repair a torn ACL, Reid said. It wasn't arthroscopic. Reid said that he would get trainer Rick Burkhalter to explain to us the surgery. We're still waiting.

Jean-Gilles had his surgery on Tuesday. He said he weighed almost 400 pounds after the season and finally decided to do something about it. He said he's down to 375 right now and hopes to get to a playing weight of 335. Reid said it was the first time he's ever had a player that had that kind of surgery. Jean-Gilles said that he would be back for OTAs in June.

-- The following players participated in individual drills, but not in team drills: defensive back Marlin Jackson (knee), tight end Cornelius Ingram (knee), cornerback Ellis Hobbs (neck) and rookie safety Nate Allen (quad). Reid said that each of the those players should be able to do more as the spring progresses.

-- Middle linebacker Stew Bradley (knee) was out there for the whole practice and said afterward that he felt fine.

DEPTH CHARTObviously, it's very early, but here is generally how the first and second team offense and defense were aligned during the morning practice (Be reminded that several key players sat out the team portion of practice with injuries):

-- McGlynn took most of the snaps at center, but Reid said Cole is the first teamer right now with Jackson still out.

-- In his first practice as the backup, Vick was shaky. He does look slimmer than he did last year.

-- McCoy, Fokou and Harris all looked a little more bulked up. According to Reid, they are a few of the second-year guys that really made an off-season commitment to getting into the workout room and strengthening up.

-- Rookie Ricky Sapp practiced with the linebackers. Linebacker Alex Hall, who came from Cleveland in the Sheldon Brown/Chris Gocong trade, played mostly with his hand on the ground off the end. Reid said Hall played that often in college.

CHANGES-- No Donovan McNabb. The only mention of No. 5 during practice came when a man screamed out of a passing car: "McNabb."

-- McNabb's familiar stall in the corner of the Eagles' NovaCare Complex locker room has been replaced by Mike Kafka. The rookie quarterback said he wasn't told it was formerly McNabb's when the Eagles assigned it to him. Vick is next to Kafka and Kolb is next to Vick, as they were last season. Mike Bell has taken over Brian Westbrook's locker. Winston Justice has taken over Shawn Andrews' old locker. SpongeBob is gone.

-- There were a number of old photos of McNabb that were recently taken down at the NovaCare and replaced with Kolb's visage. The Eagles also had to purge their walls of Westbrook, Sheldon Brown and other long-time faces that departed this off-season.

-- Number changes: McCoy went from 29 to 25, Harris went from 35 to 24 (Brown's old number) and Dixon went from 64 to 90.